Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Kerry Macca about the Kerry Macca - Women in Insurance Initiative and their live event at the RISE Leadership Summit. Kerry Macca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrymacca/ Women in Insurance Initiative: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-insurance-initiative/posts/?feedView=all Video Version: https://youtu.be/bsDpdPt2JUo

Tony chats with Niti Jain, Founder & CEO at medml.ai, the first underwriting platform created by actuaries. After 10 years of experience in pricing Life, Health, and P&C she was tired of extremely manual underwriting processes so they set out to create a better underwriting platform. Niti Jain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niti-nj-jain-b6083b73/ medml.al: https://medml.ai/ Video Version: ht...

Tony chats with Michael Derkacz, Business Development at Ai. Law and Ai. Claims. They are a single claim file application, they generate a claims analysis report that summarizes complicated files and it does very powerful analysis to superpower your claims adjusters. It provides next steps for the claim and helps newer adjusters think like an experienced adjuster! Michael Derkacz: https://www.link...

Tony chats with Chris Bean, CEO & Co-Founder at Skytree Scientific, they are revolutionizing how insurers assess lightning risk. Their platform analyses property data and delivers a risk score in minutes allowing for faster underwriting, better pricing, and fewer losses. It also generates mitigation strategies for the policyholder. This technology came from an engineering process in Europe and...

I chat with Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting, he has 35 years of experience in all aspects of the Auto Insurance space and is now offering that expertise to carriers, MGAs, etc who need help in Product, Marketing, Claims, Litigation, etc. Les Schlesinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/les-schlesinger-039a3510/

Tony chats with Lucas Roberts, Wholesale Broker at Anzen Insurance, they aim to offer the best technology combined with the best wholesale broker offering Cyber, Specialty Commercial, E&O, D&O and EPLI. Their software analyzes submission data and allows sending to various markets in one click while still having a broker that can really walk you through difficult risks. Lucas Roberts: https...

Tony Chats with  Dan Hill, National Director of Sales at CarFax, you probably think of CarFax as the people who get you a report on a used car before you buy it but for the insurance world they do a lot more! Dan Price: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danghill/ CarFax: https://www.carfaxforinsurers.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/3CepVh9BO7o

I chat with Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology, they are a vertical AI company providing solutions for the insurance industry helping us make better decisions. They already serve 70% of the US P&C market for AI fraud detection! They just launched the Insurance Data Network, which will allow carriers to better share claim claims and fraud data with each other. This is a huge deal! A very im...

Tony chats with Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony, they have created a voice AI to build role plays to train insurance professionals. These fully dynamic voice AI agents can provide full conversations for practice, including on really complex conversations. Then it can analyze both the content and the emotional parts of the conversation. Murtaza Ali: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-murtazaa...

Tony chats with Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian, they are an AI native TPA that handles claims end-to-end. They build the best tech and combine it with highly experienced adjusters and it results in better handling of commercial claims. The whole company and their processes are truly based on what adjusters really do and the way they really think. Grace Hanson: https://www.linkedin.com...

Tony chats with Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners, they bring complex scalable enterprise level applications to production. They can be the one stop shop in all of the pieces to get your application into production. From planning, to building, QA support, all the way through integration. Their Cosmo platform covers the whole value chain of insurance from risk m...

Brian Baughman, CPCU, ARM - ESOP Evangelist and VP of Sales at The Hartwell Corporation. We chat about why it makes sense for agencies to adopt an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and what the advantages are. All employees are automatically owners after roughly a year. This aligns incentives in a way virtually impossible in other types of ownership structures. A very interesting conversation! ...

David Serna Perez, Account Executive at LivePerson, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI agent assistant for the underwriter. They are mainly focused on MGA and underwriting teams. One is focused on MGA underwriting teams and the other one is focused on reinsurance brokers and underwriters. A great conversation with an experienced AI practitioner who really gets insurance. David...

Tony chats with Chris Merideth, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner. Chris Merideth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-merideth-a6b4a255/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/xrTdfGMQ4TQ

Tony chats with Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO at Sytrex, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI Agents assistants for underwriters. They are mainly focused on helping MGA underwriting teams, basically co-pilots for insurance and reinsurance operations. They place underwriters in the center and take away the manual and boring repetitive work. Daniel Palacios: https://www.link...

Tony chats with Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy, the insurance gateway for people who build software. They help product teams and developers that are being tasked with integrating insurance APIs and help accelerate distribution of digital insurance products. Charles Merritt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmerritt/ Charles first appearance on Profiles in Risk Ep. 298: https://youtu...

Tony chats with Bill Martin, President & CEO at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance in a friendly debate about the merits of remote vs a full return-to-the-office (RTO). Bill Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billmartiniv/

Tony chats with Nadav Interstein, VP of Marketing at Swifter.io, they started as a low-code no-code platform but they have now shifted and have aggressively focused on AI. Now they have created a software development life cycle tool that uses agentic AI to generate the entire software development life cycle process going from project definition all the way through wireframe, processes, actual code...

Tony chats with Mary Rossi, President at Rossi Claims Training Academy. Mary is a 35 year veteran of the claims world, with extensive experience both carrier claims and running an IA firm. She's now offering training for claims adjuster for both new and experienced adjusters. The teaching is focused around case studies. Mary Rossi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-rossi-b8a3648a/ Rossi Claims...

Tony chats with Nima Ashtari, Founder and CEO at Manifold, they help insurance in the auto space use video analytics for telematics. From dash cams to telematics devices they can help you digest all of it. Essentially they are an aggregation and analysis tool for underwriting and claims. A very interesting company with a very interesting back story. A must listen to episode if you're into aut...

Tony chats with Michael Ley, Director of Network Relationships at Hawksoft, they are the third largest Agency Management System (AMS) with a passionate group of users. (For High Ds: Actual content starts at about minute 8.) I had heard about Hawksoft every once in a while and it was awesome to finally hear the story direct from them. What an interesting company! What started as an app writer becau...

Tony chats with John L. Connell, Co-Founder and CEO at Focal, they are the enterprise grade AI notetaking platform and automation platform for financial advisors and in the insurance agency and broker/dealer space. They are used across Charles Schwab, Vanguard, Commonwealth, and others. They deliver a vertical specific purpose built platform that saves advisors 50 hours a month! It empowers you to...

Tony chats with Eric Adler, Founder and CEO at Flume Water, they help save insurance companies money and homeowners the pain and experiences of filing a water claim. They also help decrease the time away from their house which is a win/win. They do this through a combination of DIY self-installed sensor and a network of Flume technicians that help identify issues in the home. Eric Adler: https://w...

Tony chats with Mike Hallock, Partner at McCoy Leavitt Laskey and President at Chicago CLM. Mike is an expert in fire and explosion catastrophic claims and is working with CLM to build an Emergency Response Taskforce with over 100 members to aggressively defend instead of always playing catchup to plaintiff appointments. A fascinating conversation! Mike Hallock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallock...

Tony chats with Lokesh Ballenahalli, Founder and Sunil Shivappa, COO at Enkefalos Technology, they are a research first global AI company focused on building AI solutions for the AI industry. They combine research deep research in LLMs, Responsible AI, and domain expertise to develop what they call the AI operating system for insurance. It has 3 core layers: Insurance GTP, Agentic AI Applications,...